Warning: Lemmy doesn't care about your privacy, everything is tracked and stored forever, even if you delete it
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Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit.

  • Deleted comments remain on the server but hidden to non-admins, the username remains visible
  • Deleted account usernames remain visible too
  • Anything remains visible on federated servers!
  • When you delete your account, media does not get deleted on any server
  • Thorny_ThicketEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    I assume anything I post online to remain there forever anyways. That’s why I regularly make a new account so atleast everything isn’t behind one username

    • mainfrog@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy is newish software. I assume everyone operates in the worst-case scenario too - but that doesn’t mean we should code with the worst-case scenario for privacy as some goal or built-in concession.